Carolleisa<p>“All this suggests a failure to look around corners — which is hardly new in the American presidency. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HerbertHoover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HerbertHoover</span></a> signed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smoot_Hawleytariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smoot_Hawleytariffs</span></a> in June 1930, thinking they would help create jobs, then went fishing. They instead accelerated the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatDepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatDepression</span></a>.” <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/trump-tariffs-global-trade-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-tariffs-global-trade-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>